Ocasio-Cortez’s progressive four may not like it….
They would like to have legislation that would counter Trump’s clamp down on asylum seekers , migrants and other undocumented ‘s….
But?
The policy efforts of the AOC group have NO chance of making it thru the Republican majority US Senate and Donald Trump…
House Speaker Pelosi HAS TOO do something ….
She cannot afford a fight with Republicans and be seen as not doing ANYTHING on a Trump manufactured immigration crisis ….
It’s a headache that Democrats say is not worth fighting when the same issues are likely to resurface in this fall’s larger battle over spending with Republicans. Plus, they say there’s little point in voting on a DHS funding bill that looks more like a progressive wish list than a serious opening bid to this fall’s funding talks.
“I don’t think it will accomplish anything right now,” House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) said in an interview.
Many would rather sidestep another major fight over immigration that could roil both liberals and moderates and endanger another blowup like the brawl over humanitarian aid in June that has shaken the caucus.
Democrats say they aren’t turning their backs on the humanitarian crisis. The House will vote this month on a batch of bills to create standards of medical care for migrants and to ramp up Congress’ oversight over border patrol officials. But even some Democrats acknowledge the bills are largely symbolic, slated to go nowhere in the Senate.
“It’s really tricky,” said Roybal-Allard, the lead negotiator on the DHS funding bill who also worked closely with progressives and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus last month.
She said, for example, ICE is criticized for deportations but also plays a role in combating human trafficking.
“Is it worth moving forward when we know what the Senate and the president have already said?” she said, adding that the House has a long to-do list in the coming weeks. “Where do we put all of our energy?”
But even if House Democrats shy away from the immigration battle now, the thorny issue will surely crop back up in September as congressional leaders negotiate a funding package to keep the government open….
It took a while to find the text of your Chief Magistrate’s tweets at about 8:30 this morning about foreign-born members [in reality just a single member *] of the squad, since I think this inflammatory but revealing rant has been deleted at @realdonaldtrump .
* Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation said she had found several foreign-born Republican members of Congress who support the President
But here’s how one source copied those tweets:
So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly……
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….and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how….
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….it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!
Although I hate reprinting this nativist trash, I finally found it at the source, from which it has NOT been deleted.
[One has to wonder exactly what Rep. Omar could do to fix Somalia.]
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….it is done. These places need your help badly, you can’t leave fast enough. I’m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!
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….and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how….
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So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly……
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And what will Republican members of Congress response be to Trump’s wildly xenophobic white nationalism?
I predict Crickets.
I think Omar goes overboard and she’s certainly not my favorite. But…
Trump was ,in effect, telling her to “go back to Africa.”Such was the cry of the southern segregationists in the fifties and sixties as regards Blacks seeking civil rights.
Indeed, such was the policy of some of the most virulent, racist groups of those years.
So,here we are almost Sixty years later and the Leader of the Republican Party uses almost the same language and openly implies the same.We will anxiously await condemnation of these remarks from hs fellow Republicans and we will wait and wait and wait….
Former anti-Castro hardline Representatives Lincoln Díaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen were both born in Havana. Why don’t they go back to Cuba and fix the problems there?
(Actually Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, whom I once saw and may have met, was a fairly moderate, reasonable Republican on matters that didn’t affect Cuba.)
And why doesn’t Lyin’ Ted Cruz go back and fix the “totally broken and crime-infested” Dominion of Canada ? (I’m sure that candidate Trump would have loved that in the spring of 2106.)